The STDDEV (standard deviation) function calculates the square root of the variance and is expressed in the same units as the source expression. Oracle Rdb provides the following statistical functions to standard deviation: o STDDEV This function calculates the standard deviation. o STDDEV_POP This function calculates the standard deviation (the square root of the variance) for the population. It is equivalent to STDDEV with degrees of freedom fixed at 0, that is, SET FLAGS 'VARIANCE_DOF(0)' which is the default setting. o STDDEV_SAMP This function calculates the standard deviation (the square root of the variance) for the subset of sampling of the population. It is equivalent to STDDEV with degrees of freedom fixed at 1, that is, SET FLAGS 'VARIANCE_DOF(1)' which is the default setting. By convention one degree of freedom is used when the sampling of the population is performed.